There is no expiration date on out GPIB card and our newest driver should work with it regardless of when it was made.
Before you go ahead and send the card in for repairing, try open Measurement & Automation Explorer, under System, go to Device and Interfaces and see if you can find the GPIB interface there, right click on it and select "Scan for instrument", if it finds the instrument, you can right click on the instrument and select "Communicate with instrument and try to write some commands to it and see if it works.